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Institute of Advanced Technological and Commercial Studies

IHETC Executive Education

Applied AI for Business Certificate

Move from talking about AI to measurable gains.

Entry level
Professional certification
Award
Professional certificate
Duration
4 months
Actual work
12 h/week
Pace
Compatible with a job
Tuition
3 200 000 GNF in total

A certificate for managers and operational leaders who must decide where artificial intelligence genuinely adds value — and where it does not. No coding: the focus is on use case, cost, risk and change management.

Learning objectives

  • Tell a profitable AI use case from an expensive fad
  • Estimate the cost, risk and expected return of an AI project
  • Use generative assistants effectively day to day
  • Govern AI use: data, compliance and accountability

Curriculum

120 hours · 12 credits

Year 1120 hours

  1. Understanding without coding

    30 hours · 3 credits

    What a model does and does not do, vocabulary, real capabilities and limits

  2. Identifying use cases

    30 hours · 3 credits

    How to spot them, assessing the gain, computing the return, criteria for dropping a case

  3. Generative assistants at work

    30 hours · 3 credits

    Writing instructions, fitting them into processes, quality control of outputs, measuring the gain

  4. Governance and compliance

    30 hours · 3 credits

    Data protection, confidentiality, accountability, supplier dependency, internal usage policy

Real prerequisite

What follows is assumed and will not be explained again. If most of it is foreign to you, this is not the right entry point — better to know now than at the final assessment.

No technical or programming prerequisite. You need to know your organisation's processes: all the work bears on them.

Entry requirements

  • Open to managers and team leads, with no technical prerequisite
  • Two years of professional experience recommended

Career outcomes

  • In-house AI lead
  • Digital transformation manager
  • Innovation project manager
  • Organisation consultant

Skills acquired

  • AI use cases
  • Value analysis
  • Data governance
  • Change management

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Applied AI for Business Certificate — IHETC